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Knutpunkt

The end of the winter brought Knutpunkt, the Swedish leg of the annual Nordic larp conference, held in Lund. This was my first ‘repeat’ – the first KP that I attended was the previous Swedish run, in 2014 – and also the first time that I attended ‘A Week in’, the programme of events that […]

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Knudepunkt 2015

Just back from Knudepunkt 2015, this year’s version of the annual Nordic larp conference. It was great! – a fantastic time of interesting thoughts and lovely people (and vice versa). I wrote last year about my experience of the 2014 KP, and a few weeks ago here about encouraging people to go along, so I […]

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Why you should go to Knudepunkt 2015

Denmark, 12th-15th February 2015. A conference about Nordic larp. But more than that — a gathering-place for wonderful thoughts, crazy ideas, intriguing games, marvellous people, unbelievable experiences. A buffet of goodness from which you can make your own selection, and a welcoming community which will value you and what you bring. What’s Knudepunkt? Knudepunkt — […]

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The Game Kitchen – June meeting

The other weekend I went to the monthly meeting of The Game Kitchen. This is the group that Cat Tobin set up in London after coming back from Knutpunkt 2014, with the purpose of “meet[ing] up and talk[ing] about the design of Nordic larp, freeform games (UK and American) and story games, and then – […]

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Very initial Knutpunkt 2014 thoughts

photo from here I just got back from Knutpunkt 2014, the annual Nordic-countries larp conference. 300 or so very interesting, clever and fun people talking and doing about larp for three days at a holiday camp not far from Gothenburg. It’s going to take me a little while to internally process everything I took in […]

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The Cutting Edge of Nordic Larp

Next week I’m going to be attending Knutpunkt, the annual Nordic(-style) larp conference. I’ll write more about that in due course, but this post is about the book that accompanies it, which has just been published. It’s in two volumes, which you can download from the linked pages: The Foundation Stone of Nordic Larp – […]